skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rants are always best with actual examples of what's being ranted. Just as http://tommorris.org/posts/2451
It sure looks like a fine chip for a very small niche, but they don't even have floating point instructions AFAIK, so you'd have to emulate them in software. So I'm extremely skeptical about their number crunching capabilities.
This is a very interesting discussion. I now take away that hoarding money is like paying for storage costs, i.e paying someone so that you can keep your money.
God particle' discovery poses Nobel dilemma
this shows that gems can be found not only in HN front page, and that HN search really works...
Uma experiência única no Cloud City no Met em Nova Iorque - EUA
I did this as well, and it has been working great for me for a few years. A month ago I noticed by chance that it had stopped forwarding 12 hours earlier for no apparent reason. Deleting the rule and recreating it got it working, but it got me thinking of doing a more robust solution.
It was my first startup job, I barely knew how stock options worked! I'll admit, I was easy to play.
Perhaps you've seen the article on the front page about effort estimation for programmers [1]. I know when I'm handed a bug to fix, until I find the cause I have no idea if it'll be a three hour task or a three day task.

If programmers don't know up front how much effort a task will take, how should managers?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4621268
I think the point of API keys is so that if you were to build and publish an abusive client (think badly written iOS app), it's easier to stop the DDoS, rather than having to ban thousands of end-user IPs.
"Doing a half-day?" is the remark I hate hearing the most when leaving at 5. It's said as a joke and yet it's not.

Upvotes for the person who can come up with a good come-back!

(Note, this is not a problem where I work at the moment. And even at places where it's been said, I just ignore it. Just leave at 5 people!)
Don't press Cmd+I when you have a bunch of files selected and you want to check how much space they take.
Do press Cmt+Alt+I
API keys are not the only method of authentication.
I'm disappointed because yesterday I'm browsing about looking for Louis CK videos and now I can't see all the other great comedians as well. I think the interface no longer promotes exploring of new content.
Couch is ASF project, ASF is sum of all its committers, so...
AeroFS is x87 faster than Dropbox in LAN syncing [video]
How 'Star Wars' Seduced Another Generation Of Kids
Psst... Not sure if you care, but viewing your site on iPad shows links overlapping with surrounding text, some text inexplicably clipped as well as few other rendering issues.
I installed MacPorts for these. What is really the difference between them?
Justin Bieber is my internal shorthand for: Twitter's API changes are based around the fact that they care more about celebrities and media than around being a good web API citizen or whatever. ;-)
Yep, I need to fix that. Sorry about that. I was going to do iPad testing yesterday.
Vimium in fact heralded the downfall of Chrome for me. At first, I loved it. Finally, I thought, no more context switch between browser and editor!

Then I realized due to Chrome's design, when a page doesn't load and an internal error page appears, Vimium is never called. Then suddenly I've got to resort to ctrl+w and friends some of the time. After dealing this for a while it eventually became too annoying to even bother with.

Looking for alternatives, I stumbled across Pentadactyl[1]. Tried it for a few minutes and realized it was time to make the switch back to Firefox.

I've learned that in the end, for basic software like browsers, window managers & editors, consistency by far the most important attribute; Pentadactyl/Firefox really delivers on that end.

Further, in regards to the issue you describe, Pentadactyl offers the ^v command which enables pass-through mode, which sends all keys except escape to the site you're browsing.

[1] http://5digits.org
Doug Lea from 2000?

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.42.1...
> I think reddit's approach here of splitting the community up into smaller niche groups is really interesting, but IMO they arrived at it too late to save their community overall.

But does the "community overall" need any saving?

The only things that keep reddit together as a nominal community are the crappy, spammy, default subreddits. If not for those subreddits, there would be little overlap between those who subscribe to CS subreddits and those who subscribe to cooking or literature or photography subreddits. In other words, all the good stuff is already highly fragmented, and reddit as a whole is a "community" only in the sense that it's under the same domain name.

I wouldn't miss much if reddit's "community overall" simply disintegrated in favor of even more fragmentation. What's wrong with having a million and five communities instead of one, if small and mid-sized communities in fact work better than large ones? Crowdsourcing might work best at a certain size and level of engagement, and the optimal size might be smaller than what your company's CFO wants you to believe. Yeah, it's not easy for an online business nowadays to make a neat profit unless they command a humongous "community". But the sweet thing about ASF is that they don't depend on having a lot of people see ads on their website, so they can optimize for effective community governance.
Billing client for reading internet, paper or chatting by the watercooler is also a fraud. Yet noone cares. As long as client is satisfied with results and the price everything else doesn't matter all that much.
In general, blocking IPs is not really useful anymore since far too much abuse comes over Tor, open proxies, or potentially short-lived dynamic IPs (major German ISPs let you switch IPs as often as you want) and if you care about legitimate users, you cannot block these.

The point that websites without API-key get hit by this anyway is valid though and legitimate users won't be annoyed too much by IP-blocking abusers of the API for API access only (block all Tor exit nodes for the API too, who cares ...).

You could also mention that authentication, registration etc. probably make APIs slower and more of a burden for the servers too ...
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Tiered pricing is probably the only sane way to go for exactly the reason you suggest: big sites will use more resources.

FeedBlitz, perhaps the only real 'competitor' to FeedBurner at the moment, uses a tiered pricing model linked to the number of email subscribers you have. RSS subscribers are free. So that's one option. There will be others.

http://www.feedblitz.com/pricing/
The big difference is SpaceX was able to keep the cost down because they put the money in up front and thus weren't forced by Congress to spread the work over 20 states. But that will change now that they have government contracts.
I hate to be that guy, but it looks like you drew a penis over your username.

Anyway, I nearly never ever visit YouTube's home page. I almost always reach it from elsewhere, through direct links or by clicking the YouTube icon on embedded videos.

What I hate about YouTube is how it is connected to your Google account. Why can't I have a browser tab open with Gmail without being signed into YouTube? Or what if I want to be signed in with another account?
Highly useful. Many thanks.

Writing this response is the first productive thing I do with a Macintosh. To me it's somewhat inspiring and sad that my virgin user experience on a Mac, having clicked on Safari because it's the only thing that looked familiar, was the memorial video being shown today[1] on apple.com for 1 year since Steve Jobs death.

This feeling of sheer admiration is greatly reinforced by the pushback of a thought that a past generation of great man (Being 29 myself) was here to creatively pioneer the core culture values for us to build upon. I have just recently learned about Apple and Steve, reading Walter Issacson point of view. I found that honestly understanding how and mostly why Apple was build is an easily traceable path to enable one to learn to admire the actions and mostly the philosophy behind the company and behind Steve Jobs. Reading http://www.folklore.org also gives it's magical touch of a time that once was.

So thank you for your wonderful experience tips. Your assumption for this macbook is correct it will be used as a tool to making software, I hope to build something useful and fun for the world.

Will Have Fun, thank you for the suggestion :)

Maxim.

[1] http://movies.apple.com/media/us/stevejobs/stevejobs-memoria...
API keys are a perfectly valid and useful concept for a situation where you, as the owner of a (possibly paid) account can create those keys and hand them to 3rd parties or programs that provide a service using (reading only) some of the data related to your account (you don't want to give them
your login info, right?).

Example: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/EVE_API_Functions
Absolutely!

This helps stop developers from putting lazy API calls on the client side instead of caching, for example.

For instance if my website includes a feed of my latest posts to a third party service I should be caching them myself and serving direct to visitors, rather than using a client side request coming from every visitor's browser.

Obviously this sounds like common sense but you might be surprised :)
When I read the article, I expected that assuming all this responsibility allowed him to go home earlier than 5, or take some afternoons off. But it seems he is only working slightly less overtime. I don't get this work culture.
So, on the Tor front: Wikipedia has blocked Tor users from editing since, well, since forever. For the occasional Chinese dissident or whoever who actually wants to legitimately edit over Tor or another blocked IP from an account, they can request IP block exemption from an administrator.

Another solution is to actually use User-Agent strings. Nominatim, OpenStreetMap's reverse geocoder, recommends that legitimate users put an email address in their User-Agent string. So it might read "My Craptastic Mashup v1. Maintained by: <whoever@gmail.com>". If there's a legitimate problem, email them.
"cargo-cult". That's the term I was looking for. Monkey see, monkey do. Code monkey mimicry.

If thinking for yourself is "arrogance", then we need more "arrogant" people involved in web design.

It's not the "API" that is the method of providing and restricting access. It's the IP address. Any reasonably smart user can figure out the "API". They do not need a lengthy manual. A few examples, mere hints, is all that is needed.
This exam is just a scam. Engineers working in those areas you described are fully aware and do not need an exam to proove it. Engineers new to those areas will not get a job because of having done this exam.
With just a so low percentage in QA passers know jack about testing very-whatever scenarios. They just get dipped into QA sauce like a hairless chicken breast. Same for all other areas described in the exam IMHO.
There is a 'great' handbook from some US military on how to develop their software. It is a massive block of everything - but after working on every single item described in there you have in depth know
edge about processes, code standards and test coverage.
Well NoBadGift.com did pretty much this same thing. While NoBadGift.com allowed for group gifting a user could just buy a gift out right and have it shipped. Full disclosure I am the CEO of NoBadGift.com which will be shutting down sometime this month. Our new site is http://Given.to which will be launching very soon. We are taking the idea of social gifting/commerce to the next level.
Employment agreements, in terms of how risks are shared, differ in that employees and the state expect the employer to take a higher risk over the ups and downs of the business in Europe than, say, in California. It has an effect over the meaning of share options.

Employers do not have any incentive to share a positive future when (they perceive that) the employees do not share a negative present.
DjangoCon US 2012 Videos
There is a torrent[1] with all videos courtesy of Jesse Noller[2].

[1]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1374/DjangoCon%20US%202012.torrent

[2]http://jessenoller.com/
Evolution And Big Bang Are “Lies”
Ask HN - how do I take / offer stock options and protect both sides
This comment proved illuminating - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4623053<p>The GP was taken for a ride on promises of vast stock options.<p>So, I would like to ask HN for it's best practises, for founders and employees, on stock options and structuring the company. If I have missed the various past threads I apologise<p>Specifically I would be interested in use of convertible notes, founders agreements, early employee structure, how as an employee to protect yourself, liquidation events and being in them, etc. Etc. Etc<p>Thank you
رسايل عيد الاضحى 2012 جميلة جدا للموبايل sms
Russian programs are not contemporary: they are early 1970s projects with some 21st century trim jobs. They R&D costs and production lines were amortized before Reagan came to power.
Ask HN: A decent competitor to RescueTime
I used to use RescueTime to track how I was spending time on my computer as well as blocking things that were distracting but I had so many problems with it I gave up. I see there’s this thing ManicTime—about ManicTime on Lifehacker—but that’s for Windows only.

The problem for me is that RescueTime is pretty much exactly what I want. It’s in the cloud, works on Windows and Mac, allows me to block things I don’t want to be distracted by, etc. But the team behind the product just seem to be a bit incompetent. I’ve been using it for years and I’ve seen little to no improvement. Last time I used it the blocking features had broken completely for me, it took them forever to implement a weak—read: of no use—feature for recording time spent on specific projects instead of in specific applications, they had a serious bug on their website that prevented a particular feature from working which they hadn’t even noticed until I told them about it.

The dream is for my computer to keep information of what I’m doing:

* which programs I’m using
* which files I have open
* which folders those files are in
* which websites I’m visiting
* the emails I’m reading/writing and to whom
* relationships between these things that give
greater insight than those things on their own

…store this in an organized way that I can train and improve and present useful statistics to me. (Couldn’t the first three on this list be achieved with some systems programming roughly equivalent to the implementations of ps and lsof UNIX commands? It can’t be that hard.) Then later you could also start thinking about making this work on smartphones.

As an idea for a startup this seems like a complete no-brainer to me. If you are someone who has the capability to get a reasonably sized team of actual good developers with some vision and discipline together then you can probably trounce the existing competition and there must be tons of people who need this kind of functionality.
I absolutely love G+. I don't use Facebook and never have. The hardest thing I found about using G+ is getting anyone else to use it. It has many more features, is more flexible, and integrates with everything I do (and integrates with everything the people I want to use it does).

EDIT: And this paragraph says exactly explains how I feel:

"Which brings me back to Google+. As a standalone social network — business or personal — I don’t have much use for it, but when it’s sitting there next to Gmail and Hangouts, I just can’t help using it as a company-private blog. At first, it’s just a place to put notes to myself, but I share them so that others can find them too. Once a few people start doing that, or a small team commits to doing it for the good of the team, the game is over. It can’t help but take off."
There are places where you are paid for the fact that you come into the office and that people who see you are content with you. This creates culture of staying late.

There are places where you bill by the hour. This causes slacking off because you have financial incentives to work longer.

There are almost no places where knowledge workers are paid for results because you can't objectivly asses results. They must be assesed by a human. Manager most likely is too clueless to asses them. He also might be evil and just reward loyalty to him instead of the value of the work done.

I think that the most efficient environment is to pay for each hour but closely monitor what the people are doing and communication between them. You'll have to pay much more then the competition though because people factor in slacking off into their expected pay. So not many companies bother. They prefer to accept some degrees of slacking off especially because that enforces the illusion of company as one happy family.
Your proposed solution isn't really email though. What you are describing has already been solved by instant messaging/jabber/twitter/facebook PM etc. Some of the solutions that already exist need a third part provider, others don't.

The problem to solve is how do you have a fixed address where anyone can contact you, spam doesn't get though and you don't have to maintain personal black/white lists. This is what email currently provides. Granted, the spam part varies depending on the provider.
A somewhat relevant article about the police and Backpage:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121002/07354820569/oh-loo...
I have to admit, I do actually really like the EVE API a lot. It's very simple, but the community has done amazing things with it: iOS and Android clients, EVE Fitting Tool, EVEMon and many other things.

Oh god, I'm being tempted back to exploring New Eden again.

For non-EVE players: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/3rd_party_tools
That one had me cracking up.
"This is what keeps me from android"

I don't get this argument. These Motorola phones are all using a unix like operating system. So why don't you say "That is what keeps me from unix like operating systems", which includes the iPhone?

Stop thinking of Android as a Smartphone. Your confusion will vanish immediately: The Galaxy sucks? Don't buy Galaxy anymore. Motorola does not support devices well? Then stay away from Motorola! (At least until the changed course for the mothership).

Apple is known for great long term support, so is Google.
Buying a device from on of them usually guarantees good support.

Asus has a good track record as well. Samsung is not that great, but they still give software support for the Touchwiz OS on their Galaxy line for 12-18 months. This usually includes 2 major Android versions.

I'm not in the US, but I hear Verizon, Spring and AT&T provide horrible software support. Never buy a smartphone that has one of their Logos on it.

Your experience with a smartphone depends on a combination of hardware, software and service. Android is none of the three things, it's just the technology that most vendors use as the base for their software. It has nothing to do with service.
Real-time Mocap and VR in UDK
Here's your model programmer who makes a lot more, although you'll probably call it an unfair comparison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson
PadMapper > MapView
Who said anything about skimping on hardware ? My point was that you don't get the same horse power for price ratio on an apple laptop that you get from a Windows laptop. As for support it depends on your geographical location. You were able to get your mac air replaced thrice within 24 hours each time and I get similar support for my Windows laptops. It took me 4 days just to get a human being to respond to a problem I had with apple up-to-date support.

Developer time is more valuable than hardware costs hands down. The horse power that you can back in return for that hardware cost varies between apple and windows.
Yes but he talks about how it was the initial 3 contributors of Couch that created the culture that is so important to the quality of the community they currently have.
MapView > PadMapper
What did you have in mind? We hear from the community that some combination of equity and cash would be helpful, but I'm curious what other ideas you had?
This should include ASK HN: What to do I am 60 years old programmer?
Productive hours are the right thing to measure. Some task can take few hours or minutes depending on luck. Also expeirience but that's already factored into your hourly rate. If you had fixed (low) pay for adding missing coma you'd have to swollow the risk that it might take you hours and pay a little. That's what most programmers and lawers try to avoid by charging hourly rates.
We agree with you, however, this is a way to turn an idea into a minimum viable product without spending money. This may not be the best way to build a full product, but our philosophy is the more hypotheses you can test without spending cash the better off you are. Thoughts?
How would you suggest we improve the script and home page?
That's what circles are for in G+.
It depends what you are throttling by.
Why am I being downvoted? If you think the extradition of Assange to Sweden is all a plot to get him to the USA, you need to read a lot more about the case.

Extraditing him to Sweden makes it harder for him to be extradited to the USA - in effect, you then have to go through extradition procedures in both the UK and Sweden.

This is an interesting, useful, and relevant article (and published by a left of centre source at that): http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/david-allen-green/2012/08/....
Perhaps the way to see this is to ask not what's "easy to find" but what's "most likely to move the case on". If you are a journal editor and find in your hands a note saying that paper X was fraudulent and has to be retracted, and another note that says paper Y had a mistake and has to be retracted, you would assign a higher priority to retracting paper X.
So would you prefer a combination of equity and cash? We are always open to ideas and would consider including that functionality. Lots of people seem to be mentioning that concern.